There are lots of Holocaust deniers. Why is it the job of the US Congress to condemn them?
Ron Paul is nothing more than a 1930’s -40’s type of isolationist. He’s probably a good man and I admire his dedication to the Constitution but he and his followers need to understand that the world is a very different place now.
Damn that Ron Paul. How could he not support the war with Iran, especially after it was declared by Congress... Oh wait, that didn’t happen!
‘The two “no” votes were cast by Ron Paul and leftwing nut Dennis Kucinich. ‘
New tag line for the time being.
Every time RP opens his mouth, he sounds more like a lunatic. I just don’t get where all his money is coming from. If he wins the Republican nomination, I’d consider voting for a 3rd party candidate!
“The Associated Press reports that while campaigning in New Hampshire yesterday, Congressman Ron Paul said that if he is elected president he will end economic sanctions on Iran and withdraw the U.S. Navy from nearby waters.”
What a friggin’ lunatic. I blip on the furuno radar.
This douchebag accepted thousands of dollars to speak at a Moonie event and he can’t remember the name of the band “Rage Against The Machine”. That’s someone I’ll take seriously.
That vote means nothing. It does nothing. It results in nothing. So ... why shouldn't the President go along with that with that near-unanimous do-nothing statement by the representatives of the people of this country? If Congress won't declare war when appropriate, then why are they not "disqualified" from their position in Congress? If Congress won't similarly vote to take real action, then why should the President be wasting money maintaining a force where The People don't want it? Awright, as Chief Executive maybe he can send Ahmanutjob a letter of condemnation; that's what Congress voted for - not war.
Looks to me more like RP is simply not playing the stupid (and expensive) games. Ask him if he would execute a war if Congress declared one - THAT is a relevant question.
Ron Paul is not a left-wing nut job, nor a right-wing nut job, nor a Libertarian nut job.
Ron Paul is simply crazy as bat s**t!
What’s interesting about the resolution is that repeats the so-often-repeated-claim-that-it-must-be-true that Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be nuked or “wiped off the map”. In fact, what he said is more properly translated as “must vanish from the pages of time”, i.e. that the Jewish state should collapse and be replaced with something else, which, while obviously not friendly, is not the threat that everybody “knows” he made because it is repeated in MSM. Ahmadinejad and his spokesturbans have been clarifying what they said since then, and denying that they made a threat, but this is not reported because it doesn’t make such good copy.
Read this for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel
Apparently the mistranslation originated ironically in Iran’s own PR bureau and spread from there. I’ll bet nobody on FR even knows about this because everything they have read from Dick “he’s threatened to nuke Israel” Cheney on down has repeated the mantra.
Paul might actually be aware of this and out of principle did not support a resolution that was based primarily on a lie.
Ron Paul is a Kook.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9803/25/heavens.gate/1.apple.jpg
Ron Paul uses the Devil Sign....it was done deliberately.
Ronbots will say Ron didn’t do that.. it was a surfer’s shaka sign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAL8ihIdMCU&feature=related
while campaigning in New Hampshire yesterday, Congressman Ron Paul said that if he is elected president he will end economic sanctions on Iran and withdraw the U.S. Navy from nearby waters. I am not surprised. On September 25th of this year when the House of Representatives voted 397-to-16 to impose economic sanctions on Iran, Paul was one of the 16 "no" votes. In July of this year, the House voted 411-to-2 to condemn Iran's Hitler- clone, "president" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The rare bipartisan vote was in reaction to Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust, while telling mobs in Iran that they should imagine a world with no Israel and no United States, because, he assured them, that day is coming soon. The two "no" votes were cast by Ron Paul and leftwing nut Dennis Kucinich. Ron Paul says he believes in the U.S. Constitution and smaller government. Good for him. But those views are cancelled out by his unwillingness to confront the evil of Islamofascism or to even condemn a Holocaust denier. This DISQUALIFIES him to be president of the United States.Paul's belief in the Constitution has to do with ignoring what's going on in the world and not defending anything past US territorial waters. One reason to support a smaller government is to make inevitable the destruction of the United States by its permanent enemies.
